File this under things you can't make up: Indiana contacted Big Ten over controversial calls from Michigan game

Submitted by Maizen on

I have no words.

Indiana was the victim of a few questionable calls during its Week 7 game against the Wolverines, two of which proved to be devastating for the Hoosiers. The first was a defensive pass interference call that negated a Rashard Fant interception. The other, and maybe even more important, was an onside kick that Simmie Cobbs appeared to possess while in bounds late in the game.

Allen was livid with those two calls on Saturday and still isn’t too happy about the ruling early this week. But the Hoosiers’ head coach has taken the proper steps in making the conference aware of his concerns.

“There’s a protocol for that,” Allen said during his press conference on Monday. “We’ve had good discussions, very professional, handled the right way.”

https://saturdaytradition.com/indiana-football/indiana-contacted-big-ten-controversial-calls-michigan-game/

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October 17th, 2017 at 2:03 AM ^

Both of those calls were correct. For those saying the PI call was garbage, the defender had a handful of jersey. The same ref called the same PI on us for having a handful of jersey that negated an interception as well. That was about the only consistent thing all day.

Their coach is a douche anyways. He lost his MIND on the refs on one of our punts late in the game that went out of bounds. It should've been at their 16 but the ref marked it at the 15 and he went nuclear.

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charblue.

October 17th, 2017 at 9:56 AM ^

officiating both during and afterward, but the crew called a record number of penalties on Michigan including three on one play. Indiana got 144 yards in benefit out of that which either extended drives or negated bad plays, and he's complaining about a pair of iffy judgment calls on pass interference and the onside possession. Of course, it's a close call along the sideline and it got reviewed. Review is always a 50-50 proposition, especially in a tie game. So it got called by the crew and then reviewed.

After the game, he suggests Michigan got the sideline call because its Michigan and has earned such close calls over its history while lowly Indiana has to eat dust. No, it got the call because Cobbs looked like he stepped out and then it was reviewed and that position was upheld.

Here's the thing, looking at the crew as that game started, it was clear it was like the E team. They called 11 first half penalties on Michigan. Eleven. That was nearly a third of the number of penalties called on Michigan this season. When you get that volume of calls, you hardly have grounds to bitch about those that you contend you should have gotten when the game was on the line, because you didn't take advantage of them when they were flagged during the rest of the game.

Here's another lesson, nothing comes of crying to the league about the officiating, except maybe a change in officiating assignments going forward.

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